EDQ introduces a new format to the Forum section in this issue. Periodically an article is submitted to us that raises important policy or methodological issues that have generated sharp responses from external reviewers. We believe that the debate that has taken place between the authors and...

Some useful economic models in prose -- Chicago and the development of the old Northwest -- The second city : 1900-1930 -- Depression and war -- Chicago in 1950, and a look ahead -- Postwar growth and suburbanization : 1950-1970 -- The decades of urban crisis -- The old century ends on a high...